This is about major setbacks. If you’ve worked hard, sacrificed a great deal, and come a long way, and then you hit a major problem, it can feel like everything has fallen apart. There is always a point when you hit a major setback: the moment when all feels lost, when your original plan is…
I’ve spent the last few lessons discussing how bad you might feel once you’ve completed your goal. Now I need to rein things in and take a different tack. Stop for a moment. Seriously. Put down whatever you’re doing, take a breath, and actually acknowledge what you’ve already accomplished. You did it. You crossed the…
You’re busy. Ridiculously busy. Your calendar’s rammed, your inbox is overflowing, you’re juggling seventeen different priorities, and yet somehow you’re achieving bugger all. You’re exhausted, you’re stressed, and at the end of the day you can’t actually point to anything meaningful you’ve accomplished. Here’s the problem. Being busy doesn’t mean you’re being productive. You can…
We’ve all had times in our lives when the fight-or-flight response has kicked in — when our body gets primed to take action, when your rational, deliberate thinking steps back and survival instinct takes the lead, when panic grips you, when the colour drains from your face, when your heart starts to beat faster, and…
If you’ve read this far, you’ve done something a lot of people don’t do. You started something, and you’ve stayed with it to the end. That matters, and I don’t want to rush past it. Before you go, I want to take a moment to be straight with you about why any of this exists….
You’ve done it. You’ve crossed the line, processed the disorientation, found your footing again. And somewhere in that process, something shifted. You’re not the same person who started this journey, and you know it. So here’s the question nobody asks you at this point. What are you going to do with that? Not in terms…
The Practical Route Back to Direction If you’re reading this feeling directionless, flat, or vaguely aware that you’ve been drifting without quite admitting it to yourself, good. That awareness is the beginning of something. Not the beginning of having it all sorted, but the beginning of actually looking at the problem instead of scrolling past…
There is a question that most people spend their entire lives successfully avoiding. Not through wisdom, but through busyness. Through the simple strategy of always having somewhere to go. When you are perpetually moving towards something, you never have to stop and ask whether the something actually matters. The goal does the thinking for you….
You did it. You crossed the finish line, you achieved the goal, you got what you wanted. After all that work, all that struggle, all those months or years of pushing yourself forward, you finally made it. Here’s what they don’t tell you about achieving your goals. It doesn’t end the story. It just changes…
You finally did it. After months or years of working towards that goal, you achieved it. The promotion came through. You finished the degree. You reached your target weight. You launched the business. Whatever it was you’d been chasing, you got it. And then… nothing. The expected euphoria didn’t arrive. Instead, there’s a strange emptiness,…